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* forward or masquerade
@ 2004-05-19 19:39 azeem ahmad
  2004-05-19 19:52 ` Antony Stone
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From: azeem ahmad @ 2004-05-19 19:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netfilter

hi all
i want to drop some traffic being masqueraded by my lan like 21
where should i drop these packets either in FORWARD chain or in POSTROUTING 
chain

Regards
Azeem

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* Re: forward or masquerade
  2004-05-19 19:39 forward or masquerade azeem ahmad
@ 2004-05-19 19:52 ` Antony Stone
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Antony Stone @ 2004-05-19 19:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netfilter

On Wednesday 19 May 2004 8:39 pm, azeem ahmad wrote:

> hi all
> i want to drop some traffic being masqueraded by my lan like 21
> where should i drop these packets either in FORWARD chain or in POSTROUTING
> chain

Dropping packets is a filtering action, therefore it should be done in the 
filter table of the FORWARD chain.

POSTROUTING does not have a filter table - it has a nat table, and it is for 
performing Network Address Translations.

Regards,

Antony.

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